PolarAxes.format¶

PolarAxes.format()[source]¶

Modify axes limits, radial and azimuthal gridlines, and more. Note that all of the theta arguments are specified in degrees, not radians.

Parameters

r0 (float, optional) – The radial origin. Default is 0.
theta0 ({'N', 'NW', 'W', 'SW', 'S', 'SE', 'E', 'NE'}) – The zero azimuth location. Default is N.
thetadir ({1, -1, 'anticlockwise', 'counterclockwise', 'clockwise'}, optional) – The positive azimuth direction. Clockwise corresponds to -1 and anticlockwise corresponds to 1. Default is 1.
thetamin, thetamax (float, optional) – The lower and upper azimuthal bounds in degrees. If thetamax != thetamin + 360, this produces a sector plot.
thetalim (2-tuple of float or None, optional) – Specifies thetamin and thetamax at once.
rmin, rmax (float, optional) – The inner and outer radial limits. If r0 != rmin, this produces an annular plot.
rlim (2-tuple of float or None, optional) – Specifies rmin and rmax at once.
rborder (bool, optional) – Whether to draw the polar axes border. Visibility of the “inner” radial spine and “start” and “end” azimuthal spines is controlled automatically by matplotlib.
thetagrid, rgrid, grid (bool, optional) – Whether to draw major gridlines for the azimuthal and radial axis. Use grid to toggle both.
thetagridminor, rgridminor, gridminor (bool, optional) – Whether to draw minor gridlines for the azimuthal and radial axis. Use gridminor to toggle both.
thetagridcolor, rgridcolor, gridcolor (color-spec, optional) – Color for the major and minor azimuthal and radial gridlines. Use gridcolor to set both at once.
thetalocator, rlocator (locator-spec, optional) – Used to determine the azimuthal and radial gridline positions. Passed to the Locator constructor. Can be float, list of float, string, or matplotlib.ticker.Locator instance.
thetalines, rlines – Aliases for thetalocator, rlocator.
thetalocator_kw, rlocator_kw (dict-like, optional) – The azimuthal and radial locator settings. Passed to Locator.
thetaminorlocator, rminorlocator (optional) – As for thetalocator, rlocator, but for the minor gridlines.
thetaminorticks, rminorticks (optional) – Aliases for thetaminorlocator, rminorlocator.
thetaminorlocator_kw, rminorlocator_kw – As for thetalocator_kw, rlocator_kw, but for the minor locator.
rlabelpos (float, optional) – The azimuth at which radial coordinates are labeled.
thetaformatter, rformatter (formatter-spec, optional) – Used to determine the azimuthal and radial label format. Passed to the Formatter constructor. Can be string, list of string, or matplotlib.ticker.Formatter instance. Use [], 'null', or 'none' for no labels.
thetalabels, rlabels (optional) – Aliases for thetaformatter, rformatter.
thetaformatter_kw, rformatter_kw (dict-like, optional) – The azimuthal and radial label formatter settings. Passed to Formatter.
labelpad (unit-spec, optional) – The padding between the axes edge and the radial and azimuthal labels. Default is rc['grid.labelpad']. If float, units are points. If string, interpreted by units.

Other Parameters

title (str, optional) – The axes title.
abc (bool or str, optional) – The “a-b-c” subplot label style. Must contain the character a or A, for example 'a.', or 'A'. If True then the default style of 'a' is used. The a or A is replaced with the alphabetic character matching the number. If number is greater than 26, the characters loop around to a, …, z, aa, …, zz, aaa, …, zzz, etc.

abcloc, titleloc (str, optional) – Strings indicating the location for the a-b-c label and main title. The following locations are valid (defaults are rc['abc.loc'] = 'left' and rc['title.loc'] = 'center'):

Location	Valid keys
center above axes	`'center'`, `'c'`
left above axes	`'left'`, `'l'`
right above axes	`'right'`, `'r'`
lower center inside axes	`'lower center'`, `'lc'`
upper center inside axes	`'upper center'`, `'uc'`
upper right inside axes	`'upper right'`, `'ur'`
upper left inside axes	`'upper left'`, `'ul'`
lower left inside axes	`'lower left'`, `'ll'`
lower right inside axes	`'lower right'`, `'lr'`

abcborder, titleborder (bool, optional) – Whether to draw a white border around titles and a-b-c labels positioned inside the axes. This can help them stand out on top of artists plotted inside the axes. Defaults are rc['abc.border'] = True and rc['title.border'] = True.
abcbbox, titlebbox (bool, optional) – Whether to draw a white bbox around titles and a-b-c labels positioned inside the axes. This can help them stand out on top of artists plotted inside the axes. Defaults are rc['abc.bbox'] = False and rc['title.bbox'] = False.
abc_kw, title_kw (dict-like, optional) – Additional settings used to update the a-b-c label and title with text.update().
titlepad (float, optional) – The padding for the inner and outer titles and a-b-c labels in arbitrary units (default is points). Default is rc['title.pad'] = 5.0.
titleabove (bool, optional) – Whether to try to put outer titles and a-b-c labels above panels, colorbars, or legends that are above the axes. Default is rc['title.above'] = True.
abctitlepad (float, optional) – The horizontal padding between the a-b-c label and title when they are in the same location. Default is rc['abc.titlepad'] = 4.0.
ltitle, ctitle, rtitle, ultitle, uctitle, urtitle, lltitle, lctitle, lrtitle (str, optional) – Additional titles in specific positions. This works as an alternative to the ax.format(title='Title', titleloc=loc) workflow and permits adding more than one title-like label to a single axes.
a, alpha, fc, facecolor, ec, edgecolor, lw, linewidth, ls, linestyle (optional) – Additional settings applied to the background patch, and their shorthands. Defaults are rc['axes.alpha'], rc['axes.facecolor'], rc['axes.edgecolor'], rc['axes.linewidth'], and '-', respectively.
rowlabels, collabels, llabels, tlabels, rlabels, blabels – Aliases for leftlabels and toplabels, and for leftlabels, toplabels, rightlabels, and bottomlabels, respectively.
leftlabels, toplabels, rightlabels, bottomlabels (sequence of str, optional) – Labels for the subplots lying along the left, top, right, and bottom edges of the figure. The length of each list must match the number of subplots along the corresponding edge.
leftlabelpad, toplabelpad, rightlabelpad, bottomlabelpad (float, optional) – The padding between the labels and the axes content in arbitrary units (default is points). Defaults are rc['leftlabel.pad'], rc['toplabel.pad'], rc['rightlabel.pad'], and rc['bottomlabel.pad']
leftlabels_kw, toplabels_kw, rightlabels_kw, bottomlabels_kw (dict-like, optional) – Additional settings used to update the labels with text.update().
figtitle – Alias for suptitle.
suptitle (str, optional) – The figure “super” title, centered between the left edge of the lefmost column of subplots and the right edge of the rightmost column of subplots, and automatically offset above figure titles. This is an improvement on matplotlib’s “super” title, which just centers the text between figure edges.
suptitlepad (float, optional) – The padding between the super title and the axes content in arbitrary units (default is points). Default is rc['suptitle.pad'].
suptitle_kw (optional) – Additional settings used to update the super title with text.update().
rc_mode (int, optional) – The context mode passed to context.
rc_kw (dict-like, optional) – An alternative to passing extra keyword arguments. See below.
**kwargs – Passed to proplot.config.Configurator.context and used to update the axes-relevant rc settings. For example, abcstyle='A.' modifies the rc['abc.style'] setting, titleloc='left' modifies the rc['title.loc'] setting, gridminor=True modifies the rc.gridminor setting, and gridbelow=True modifies the rc['grid.below'] setting. Many of the keyword arguments documented above are actually applied by updating the rc settings then retrieving the updated settings.